The draft copy for the Scottish Arts Council/Scottish Screen joint response to
the Draft
Culture (Scotland) Bill is now available online:
http://www.scottisharts.org.uk/1/artsinscotland/response.aspx

Perhaps unsurprisingly the document is a pretty thorough endorsement of Creative
Scotland from the two bodies that it will replace, and from some of the key
personnel who
will be charged with running it. All that is requested of the Executive is that
they clarify
the role of the new agency, grant it greater levels of authority and autonomy
and explain
the relationships it will be expected to have with other bodies.

If you wish to respond to the document before it is submitted to the Scottish
Executive, do
so via the website quoted above before Friday the 16th of March.

Terry Anderson
President
Scottish Artists Union